LONDON British and French foreign ministers are heading to New York today to bolster Arab League efforts to press for a United Nations resolution aimed at halting Syria’s violent crackdown on antiregime protests. More...

BOWDOINHAM A Bowdoinham man faces a charge of felony aggravated reckless conduct after he allegedly loaded a shotgun late Thursday during a squabble with family members over a set of truck tires. More...

BATH The Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A high school swimming championships are set for Feb. 11, with the Morse squad certainly having a home-pool advantage when the event kicks off at 9 a.m. at the Bath Area Family YMCA. More...

BOSTON It was the same play Cleveland ran at the end of regulation in its third game this season — the third game of Kyrie Irving’s NBA career. He missed that one. On Sunday night, Cavaliers coach Byron Scott called it More...

In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-tofail banks that have funded hi More...

You have six crayons: red, yellow, blue, green, black and white. Does this mean you cannot draw a pink flower or an orange sunset? Certainly not. A little white with your red will give you pink. And yellow with red gives you orange. More...

WASHINGTON ( AP) — Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, but it’s a plan that stands virtually no chance of passin More...

BRUNSWICK A reportedly delusional Brunswick man with schizophrenia has been missing for more than two weeks and his worried family is asking the public for help. Jason Reil, 33, was last seen by his father on the morning of Jan. More...

BRUNSWICK Author Barbara Ehrenreich has a theory. “(Poverty) is not a character failing or a wrong-headed lifestyle,” Ehrenreich said to a full house at Bowdoin College’s Pickard Theater on Friday. More...

O nce upon a time a peasant had three sons, and everyone called the youngest boy, Hansel, a fool. Hansel was different from his brothers, and whenever he tried to do the things they did, he failed. When he failed, his father punished him. More...

Midshipmen EVAN TURMENNE and JOSEPH ZINNI, both of Brunswick, were sworn in as members of the Maine Maritime Academy Regiment of Midshipmen at a ceremony during fall 2011. Turmenne, a graduate of Brunswick High School, Brunswick, Maine,&nbs More...

Ballot box barrier dodged Last week’s decision by legislators on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee to table action on a bill that would have required voters to show photo identification before casting ballots represents a victory More...

DEAR ABBY: My wife, “ Kate,” and her sister, “Judy,” do not get along, to the point that my wife refuses to be in the same room with her. I have a class reunion coming up, and Judy is in my class. More...

WATERVILLE ( AP) — Some of the blood found in a home where a missing toddler was last seen six weeks ago belonged to the little girl, an official said. State Police spokesman Steve McCausland on Sunday would not say how much of Ayla Reyno More...